New Saint John Henry Newman Research Centre

St John Henry Newman

Maryvale has announced the establishment of a new research centre, named after Cardinal St John Henry Newman. The centre is part of Maryvale Institute, based at Maryvale House in Birmingham, which was Newman's first home after he became a Catholic and which was named by him.

While at Maryvale House, Newman wrote that: "from the very first month of my Catholic existence … I wished for a Catholic University" and regarded education as "the true enlargement of the mind [giving it] the power of viewing many things at once."

Centre Director, Deacon Dr Harry Schnitker, Obl.O.Ss.S., writes: At the Research Centre, we are engaged in realising Newman's dream in the field of research by creating a platform for academic work and exchange of the highest quality. Our aim is to explore and explain Catholicism and the Catholic cultural tradition and make its insights and achievements known to a wider audience. We aim to achieve this through conferences, publications, a peer reviewed periodical, podcasts, web pages and other media.

We are proud to be associated with a large group of over sixty committed scholars, many of whom are also active as research supervisors in our PhD research programme, and teach our Masters and undergraduate students.

Our associates come from many different backgrounds, countries and cultures, including Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Norway, Lithuania, Holland, France, Italy, the USA, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Argentina, Panama and Peru. Most hold senior posts in some of the most prestigious universities in the world, including at Oxford, Cambridge, Leuven and in the USA. Many are already leading voices in the Catholic world.

Our centre is a work of community in the best Catholic tradition: together our members ensure that the Research Centre is not only a place for high quality academic work, but also for growing together in faith and understanding.

Our first major activity will be our contribution to the wider Maryvale Conference on the New Directory for Catechesis, which will be available for free online.

For further information on the conference, please contact marketing@maryvale.ac.uk

For further information on the Centre, please contact postgrad@maryvale.ac.uk

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Maryvale Institute - www.maryvale.ac.uk/